Maintaining Poverty: Women and the Welfare State
October 8, 2005
10am to 12 noon

Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Women's Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara,
"From Security to Rehabilitation to Rights: Women, Welfare, and Poverty"

Carole Srole, History Department,
"Television's 'Queen for a Day': The Mid-Twentieth-Century 'Worthy' Poor"

Alejandra  Marchevsky, Liberal Studies, California State University at Los Angeles,
"Tough Love in L.A. County: Latina Immigrants and the Failure of Welfare Reform"

Moderator: Ricky Manoff, Women's Studies, California State University at Northridge

This is a free program. Attendees are invited to share lunch on the patio after the program (lunches available for purchase, or bring your own).

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